Megan Iorio
@meganiorio.bsky.social
Senior Counsel @EPIC.org focusing on platform governance & accountability
Last night, NJ passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act, protecting kids online by regulating the design of online products! Many of the Act’s key components came from EPIC’s model AADC bill. All that's left now is Gov. Sherrill’s signature. Read more here: epic.org/epic-applaud...
PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Applauds Passage of the New Jersey Kids Code Act
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Meta's attorney in the MA addictive design case told the Supreme Judicial Court that @epic.org was wrong about how the 9th Circuit interprets Section 230. But it's Meta who is wrong. & it should know better—just last year, the 9th rejected Meta's plea that it adopt the test Meta says it adopted.
EPIC@epic.org · 10mo agoOther courts rightfully recognize that Meta’s proposed Section 230 test would “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet,” hurting society to boost Meta’s bottom line. We think the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court should also reject Meta’s argument and let the case proceed. buff.ly/fFcvmmz
Tomorrow, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments on whether the Commonwealth can continue to pursue its case against Meta. Meta is trying to block the case by expanding Section 230 into a broad legal protection, arguing it shouldn’t face scrutiny for its platform design.
This is such brazen censorship. It’s all right there in the open, a quintessential jawboning case, the lawsuit writes itself.
We partnered with these amazing legal, privacy & tech accountability experts on an amicus brief for a case about how Meta’s design choices allegedly harmed kids. At Cybersecurity for Democracy, we conduct scientific research to show how these systems work & what accountability can look like. More 👇🏼
EPIC@epic.org · last yr.EPIC led a coalition of legal scholars including @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy, and Tech Justice Law Project to file a Ninth Circuit amicus brief arguing against Meta’s use of Section 230 to shield itself from lawsuits. 🧵 #Meta #SocialMedia #Section230
Thanks to @epic.org for leading the way, to @comminsense.bsky.social and TJLP for this collaboration, and the below legal scholars, who signed on in support. What a team! cc: @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social & @meganiorio.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...
Megan Iorio@meganiorio.bsky.social · last yr.The 11 legal scholars are experts on Section 230, platform governance, & digital rights, including @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, @daniellecitron.bsky.social, @brettfrischmann.bsky.social, @FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, @gaiabernstein.bsky.social, & @ariezra.bsky.social. Thank you all!
EPIC collaborated w/ @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy (@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) & Tech Justice Law Project on a brief telling the Ninth Circuit to deny Meta Section 230 protections for its allegedly addictive design. 11 legal scholars joined!
EPIC@epic.org · last yr.EPIC led a coalition of legal scholars including @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy, and Tech Justice Law Project to file a Ninth Circuit amicus brief arguing against Meta’s use of Section 230 to shield itself from lawsuits. 🧵 #Meta #SocialMedia #Section230
SCOTUS's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton today properly leaves legislatures with room to provide kids with heightened protections online but does not go far enough in incentivizing legislatures to prescribe privacy-protective age assurance methods. epic.org/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Impose Age Verification Requirements on Porn Sites Subject Only to Limited Privacy Safeguards
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The California Age-Appropriate Design Code case is back in the 9th Circuit. Did NetChoice remedy the flaws the Ninth Circuit ID'ed the first time around? Nope. But the district court granted a full injunction anyway—endorsing yet another bad legal theory that endangers long-established privacy laws
EPIC@epic.org · last yr.📄 EPIC submitted its fourth amicus brief in #NetChoice v. Bonta against tech industry group NetChoice’s attempt to overturn the #California Age-Appropriate Design Code: epic.org/epic-urges-n...
BIG NEWS! This afternoon, Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into law! governor.vermont.gov/press-releas...
Action Taken by Governor Phil Scott on Legislation - June 12, 2025 | Office of Governor Phil Scott
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Also super telling that the Searchlight guy thinks that angering a key Dem constituency is a good thing. My guy you sound like the absolute worst political strategist and all you are going to do is help Dems lose harder.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.why would you say this out loud. why would you give us this lmao
EPIC applauds the passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) today: epic.org/epic-applaud...
EPIC Applauds Passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code
<p>Today, the Vermont Legislature passed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The Vermont AADC protects kids’ privacy, enhances kids’ autonomy, and ensures their online safety by prohibitin...
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⚠️ NetChoice v. Bonta: An oral argument explainer 🧵 EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...
Megan Iorio@meganiorio.bsky.social · last yr.Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...
Ninth Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Case About Whether Algorithms Directed to Induce Habit-Forming Behavior Are Protected Speech
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All of that to say he didn’t like what she said in her op-ed so he sent goons to disappear her off the street.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoMarco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
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Thanks Prem for amplifying! Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted). We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y agoNearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia. Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say. Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y agoVideo of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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My analysis of the decision issued yesterday in the CA Age-Appropriate Design Code case. Short of it is that the First Amendment analysis is wrong and unnecessary and the judge shouldn’t have opined on the constitutional questions at all b/c the case could have been decided on severability.
EPIC@epic.org · 2y agoYesterday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against CA’s Age-Appropriate Design Code in its entirety. The judge's 1st Amend. analysis flouted directions from the 9th Cir. & SCOTUS to more critically examine Big Tech’s demands for broad relief from regulation. epic.org/judge-in-cal...
Fuck yeah Georgetown Law, this is how you stand up to threats from an authoritarian regime. As an alumna, I knew Martin has picked a fight with the wrong school. GULC is deeply committed to the critical study of law & supports students pursuing public interest in ways other top schools don’t.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2y agoWith his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
When will Democrats learn you can’t out-Republican the Republicans but you can deploy populism to address the actual problems we’re facing. Trump is dismantling democracy, he is screwing with your social security, he is shredding the freedom to speak, and he’s making every damn one of us less safe.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y agoI’m six years younger than Elissa Slotkin but I also remember the horrible Reagan years when he left the queer community to die and Black communities to drown in poverty and started the destruction of higher ed so I know any Democrat trying to take us back to that era fucking sucks
🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵 Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
The Ninth Circuit has enjoined California's law regulating addictive feeds pending appeal. No opinion attached. Merits briefing in the appeal will proceed on an expedited schedule (completed by mid-to-late March) and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the Ninth Circuit to rule thereafter.
Of all the blatantly unconstitutional things Trump is up to this is up at the top of the list. Yet because it’s about people speaking in support of Palestinian human rights what do you want to bet it doesn’t get the attention that other Trump actions have.
Carrie DeCell@carriedecell.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump’s poised to order deportation of pro-Palestinian student protestors. Here’s the thing—the First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Key takeaways from the TikTok v. Garland decision from @epic.org penned by my colleague @tommcbrien.bsky.social
In TikTok v. Garland, Supreme Court Sends Good Vibes for Privacy Laws, But Congress’s Targeting of TikTok Alone Won’t Do Much to Protect Privacy
<p>We need protections from all of these companies, not just TikTok, and we can only achieve them through a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law, vigorous antitrust enforcement, and other regulat...
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If you're looking for a preview of this morning's argument in SCOTUS, here you go.
Megan Iorio@meganiorio.bsky.social · 2y agoSupreme Court arguments in the Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton case are Wednesday. Here’s a look at how the case might impact kids online safety laws, and why the Court should take a Moody v. NetChoice-style approach to deciding the case.
Supreme Court arguments in the Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton case are Wednesday. Here’s a look at how the case might impact kids online safety laws, and why the Court should take a Moody v. NetChoice-style approach to deciding the case.
In Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the Supreme Court Should Preserve Legislatures’ Power to Protect Kids Online
<p>The Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could potentially impact legislatures’ abilities to enact special protections for kids online. A Moody v. NetChoice-like decision tha...
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